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Format: Commander

Commander: Merieke Ri Berit

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 21

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper control build commanded by Merieke Ri Berit. The primary strategy focuses on controlling the board through counterspells, board wipes, targeted removal, and creature theft while assembling the two-card combo of Painter's Servant and Grindstone. When assembled, Painter's Servant colors all cards, allowing Grindstone to mill an opponent's entire library in a single activation. Because Grindstone targets one player at a time, closing the game requires untapping over subsequent turns to eliminate each opponent consecutively. The deck also includes stax elements like The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale and Trinisphere to slow down aggressive opponents, alongside high-end backup threats such as Master Transmuter cheating Blightsteel Colossus into play. With thin mana ramp and limited artifact recursion, the deck excels best when methodically controlling the table pace before deploying its protected win condition.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Absorb
• 1 Adarkar Wastes
• 1 Angel's Grace
• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Ascendant Evincar
• 1 Azorius Chancery
• 1 Azorius Signet
• 1 Blightsteel Colossus
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Brilliant Ultimatum
• 1 Buster Sword
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Clone
• 1 Corrupt
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Cryptic Command
• 1 Damnation
• 1 Dark Depths
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Darksteel Colossus
• 1 Dash Hopes
• 1 Deluge
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Dimir Aqueduct
• 1 Dimir Signet
• 1 Drain Life
• 1 Enlightened Tutor
• 1 Entomb
• 1 Esper Panorama
• 1 Evacuation
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Faith's Fetters
• 1 Ghost Quarter
• 1 Grave Pact
• 1 Grindstone
• 5 Island
• 1 Isochron Scepter
• 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1 Magister Sphinx
• 1 Mana Short
• 1 Mana Tithe
• 1 Master Transmuter
• 1 Memory Jar
• 1 Memory Lapse
• 1 Merieke Ri Berit
• 1 Mystical Tutor
• 1 Oblivion Ring
• 1 Orzhov Basilica
• 1 Orzhov Signet
• 1 Painter's Servant
• 1 Paradox Haze
• 1 Phyrexian Dreadnought
• 1 Phyrexian Negator
• 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1 Phyrexian Walker
• 1 Pithing Needle
• 5 Plains
• 1 Reality Strobe
• 1 Resurrection
• 1 Seat of the Synod
• 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
• 1 Silence
• 1 Spell Burst
• 1 Stasis
• 1 Strip Mine
• 1 Sudden Death
• 5 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
• 1 Teferi, Master of Time
• 1 Temporal Isolation
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 The Meathook Massacre
• 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
• 1 Thoughtseize
• 1 Time Warp
• 1 Traumatize
• 1 Trinisphere
• 1 Umezawa's Jitte
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Urza's Mine
• 1 Urza's Power Plant
• 1 Urza's Tower
• 1 Vault of Whispers
• 1 Vesuvan Shapeshifter
• 1 Voltaic Key
• 1 Wrath of God